Can the World Really Abandon the Dollar As A Reserve Currency?

[Bit_Happy]

"Throughout history there has always been a dominant currency. As each empire became the new financial capital of the world, their currency became the most prized and tended to circulate around the globe into even the fringe economies that they may have never heard of at that moment in time. Roman Coins made it China..."
http://armstrongeconomics.com/693-2/2013-2/can-the-world-really-abandon-the-dollar-as-a-reserve-currency/

Can the World Really Abandon the Dollar As A Reserve Currency?  also..
What will happen to the US economy, and is there a way to avoid a severe depression?

[TrailingComet]

The more relevant question is to what lengths the US will go to ensure that the USD continues to be the Reserve Currency
It's a push not a pull issue

[Fabrizio89]

I don't think it matters much to central banks which currency is the dominant one as long as they have control on it. Every nation's economy is so entrenched with the rest of the world it's hard to say if there's any indipendence left and seeing how things are going in the financial world, it doesn't make sense to continue protecting actual currencies. Considering how ECB is trying to reach parity with the dollar, despite what they say, I guess someone has a vision to propose a global currency, I know it's a hot topic in places like "conspiracy forums" but you know what they say about broken clocks.

[Fuish]

It didn't take too long, once the idea was started, for the US to get off the gold standard. Similar concept, but on a global scale. Switching to a different national currency (Yuan, Euro) would be more easily done than worldwide acceptance of Bitcoin, but either could eventually be done. With the fall of Rome, the denarius fell too; the same will happen if the US continues as it has. A change will have to be made, the only speculation is to what.

[polynesia]

The more relevant question is to what lengths the US will go to ensure that the USD continues to be the Reserve Currency
It's a push not a pull issue

The US is willing to wage wars for oil... 

[Bit_Happy]

...A change will have to be made, the only speculation is to what.

Agreed, also the USA debt levels are way out of control. "What?" and "when?" are both unknown, but clearly huge changes are ahead.
The "Next Great Depression" has been avoided for a long time, how much longer to we have before it hits? 

[btcstomper]

The more relevant question is to what lengths the US will go to ensure that the USD continues to be the Reserve Currency
It's a push not a pull issue

The US is backed by OIL, ARMY and ROTHCHILD so there. I don't think we'll ever get rid of it, too many agendas depend on it.

[BitChick]

If USD really suffers a major collapse, it will most likely be the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that will take over.  It is based in Washington DC anyways so it has it close ties to the US.  I have a feeling that it would not be too difficult for the US to just decide if things got too bad, that the IMF would use their "Special Drawing Rights" or "XDR" as the new currency at that point. (for more info on this just go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_drawing_rights )

Of course, with BTC, we have a hedge against the decline of the dollar.  I don't think BTC could ever be the world's reserve currency, but it could surprise us all.  I do think it could become widely used in conjunction with other currencies for sure.  It already is!

[jjacob]

...A change will have to be made, the only speculation is to what.

Agreed, also the USA debt levels are way out of control. "What?" and "when?" are both unknown, but clearly huge changes are ahead.
The "Next Great Depression" has been avoided for a long time, how much longer to we have before it hits? 

The "Next Great Depression" will be a global one. Economies are interlinked to a great extent. Governments will work in tandem and try to avoid it.

[ivonna]

The more relevant question is to what lengths the US will go to ensure that the USD continues to be the Reserve Currency
It's a push not a pull issue

The US is backed by OIL, ARMY and ROTHCHILD so there. I don't think we'll ever get rid of it, too many agendas depend on it.

The US economy actually consists primarily of services provided to others.

The US is a net importer of oil. The US military spends much more then it "earns" while it occupies other countries. I am not sure what "rothchild" means so I cannot respond

[DhaniBoy]

for the moment I think the dollar is still the belle of the world's currencies, as the American economic policy, the dollar is still very much needed by the majority of countries that have economic ties with America, currently the biggest rival the dollar is the euro, most of-state European countries use the euro as their currency trade, the euro was deliberately made ​​by them to compete with the American dollar, but it is in addition to European countries rarely use the euro as their currency trading ... 

[sandykho47]

It's possible  , but it's very difficult 

If there are stable currency & everyone use that currency
That will happen 

[calchuchesta]

If yo udo the math, the dollar is set to collapse within the next decades, BUT the powers that be will not let this happen, they will come up with something and the public will swallow it. The dollar is immortal.

[qm7]

It is definitely possible.  However, the all seeing eye of the dollar will never die.  In a sense, you could say that the eye of the illuminati will immortalize the dollar.  In reality, the dollar with will just die with the US.

[virtfund]

It is happening as we speak. As the American economy goes, so goes American money.

[Spoetnik]

no way in hell is USD going anywhere at least not in the next while.
and that goes for Fiat in any country i think..

you can't have a main currency that requires the user to pay a lot of money to an ISP for internet access.
not just for the wallet etc but for various related services.

the entire world would need to transform in a colossal way before we even come close to this and by the time i doubt Bitcoin will be the currency we want to use.

i was watching a show on TV last night about a town in Italy that was plagued by fires
and to test they had to cut the power grid to the whole town for a looong time and evacuate all people
they never did figure out what was causing it either.
they did notice that computers and usb drives were wrecked and corrupted and magnetic spikes were recorded like something was attacking the town
some speculated it was a military weapon being tested considering the USA military notoriously did testing off the coast where the town was..
who knows maybe it was from outerspace ? gamma ray burst or something or hell even a Harp directed attack of sorts from Alaska ?

the results were obvious though.. everything was catching on fire and computers were useless and usb drives were getting wiped out !
so what is this crap about Bitcoin again ? LOL

one solar flare of a high enough X class from the sun and we could wipe out all PC's in North America with a few minutes warning *again.
Building a Financial infrastructure on digital reliance's is not just foolish but simply not doable and will fail.
and the USA gov etc knows this !
so why would they drop Fiat for a system that requires a giant grid of computers to run at all times and have every person on earth connected to an ISP (for a fee) ?
when you can just keep a piece of paper or a coin in your back pocket ?

and i hate to burst your bubble guys but the internet is not bullet proof and can be taken out easily and it will happen and prob soon.

the notion of some digital currency replacing Fiat is simply silly nonsense.
it will happen when we master Star Trek teleportation maybe lol

[identtitentti]

I don't think it matters much to central banks which currency is the dominant one as long as they have control on it. Every nation's economy is so entrenched with the rest of the world it's hard to say if there's any indipendence left and seeing how things are going in the financial world, it doesn't make sense to continue protecting actual currencies. Considering how ECB is trying to reach parity with the dollar, despite what they say, I guess someone has a vision to propose a global currency, I know it's a hot topic in places like "conspiracy forums" but you know what they say about broken clocks.

Hmm. All cryptos are global currencies... but you are correct, it's all about control and control means monopoly of money creation. Without monopoly there is no control.

[jbrnt]

I don't think countries will abandon The dollar as a reserve currency. The US is still a huge economy and countries trading with the US will always need to hold the dollar to stablise their own currency. But it's role as the main reserve currency will weaken against RMB and EUR.

[ccritser]

Its certainly possible ... I don't see how the US dollar can stand if the US government keeps getting more debt and the FED keeps creating billions of dollars in EFT's a day.

[onlyu]

The more relevant question is to what lengths the US will go to ensure that the USD continues to be the Reserve Currency
It's a push not a pull issue

Technology has enable the world at faster pace.

In the old day, replacing a reserve currency might take 1-2 decades.

If China and Russia decided to screw US, it might only take 5-10 years.